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State Sen. Steven Bradford likened the movement to “a tidal wave.” | Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via AP
California s police reform push remains challenging despite leftward shift
But they still have a tough road ahead.
An early legislative battle between Democrats offered a reminder of the issue’s thorny politics, even in a deep-blue state and cast a shadow on other policing bills, from a new duty-to-intercede standard to expanded misconduct disclosure requirements.
Moderate Democrats nearly blocked a closely watched officer decertification bill in a committee hearing last month, an open display of the power struggle between progressives and law enforcement-aligned moderate Democrats. That bill and nearly a dozen other reform proposals will test the power of a national reckoning that has gained momentum in the wake of George Floyd’s death last summer at the hands of Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer who was convicte
23-year-old filmmaker JAMAL SHAKIR will join civil rights attorney CARL DOUGLAS and Black Lives Matter Los Angeles co-founder DR. MELINA ABDULLAH to announce a new lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles and Shakir’s uncle LAPD POLICE OFFICER II
ERIC ANDERSON after the latter ordered his nephew shot with projectiles during a protest in downtown Los Angeles last summer.
(Shakir, Douglas, and Dr. Melina Abdullah will announce a civil rights lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles and Officer Eric Anderson today, Tue., May 11 at 12:30 p.m. in front of LAPD Headquarters.)
Jamal Shakir had a chance encounter with his uncle on May 29, 2020, when he attended his first BLACK LIVES MATTER protest. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of Minneapolis police, he was drawn out of his Spring Street apartment by the energy pulsing through the streets of downtown Los Angeles, where thousands of people had gathered in support of the BLM movement.
By City News Service
May 11, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A federal judge today issued an order restricting the Los Angeles Police Department s use of ``less lethal 40-millimeter and 37-millimeter projectile launchers against crowds at demonstrations.
In her order granting Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles s request for a preliminary injunction, U.S. District Judge Consuelo B. Marshall noted an increase in reports of LAPD officers pushing, striking and firing less-lethal weapons on crowds of protesters, including media covering demonstrations, without a dispersal order being given.
In her ruling, the judge ordered that: the LAPD is restricted from using 40mm and 37mm projectile launchers in public demonstrations except by officers who successfully completed training and meet all annual qualification requirements on the weapons
By City News Service
May 11, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The Los Angeles Police Commission today will hear additional information from the police department on an estimated $66.7 million plan to incorporate recommendations from three reports that found the department mishandled aspects of its response to last year s protests against racism and police brutality.
The commission may hold a vote to provide direction to the department regarding the plan, but any additional funding would have to be approved by the City Council. Mayor Eric Garcetti s proposed budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year includes a 3% increase to the police department s budget, to $1.76 billion.
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For the second year in a row, LA Pride is gonna be virtual.
Things kick off June 10 with a concert live streamed on Tik Tok, headlined by Charlie XCX, but there won t be a parade. That parade normally draws hundreds of thousands of people to West Hollywood, but organizers don t think it s safe with the risk of COVID-19 transmission.
Noah Gonzalez is vice president of the Board for Christopher Street West, the nonprofit that puts on LA Pride. He says this year s event will focus on uplifting the less fortunate in the LGBTQ community through a new volunteering effort: Pride makes a Difference.